Vegan Strawberry Cake

A vegan strawberry cake recipe that is bursting with strawberry flavor. The secret is freeze dried strawberries and strawberry extract. The same or better than any boxed strawberry cake mix. GO TO RECIPE >

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Mmmmmmm! This looks delicious! Where can you get freeze dried strawberries?

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April, I bought my freeze dried strawberries from Amazon.com. They can be hard to find.

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What a beautiful cake!

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Wow, that looks amazing. I’ll have to keep an eye out for strawberry extract & the freeze dried strawberries.

Ginger

What does the baking soda do in the frosting?

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The little bit of baking soda and lemon juice react and create air holes in the icing , which makes it fluffier.

erin

How many days in advance can the cake be made? I will ice it the day of party. Thanks

stef

This looks amazing! I don’t have strawberries right now so I’m making this with rasberries, and lime juice in leu of lemon. yummmm <3

Angel

What brand of strawberry extract did you use? Is it an imitation extract? Also, is your cake flour Swan’s?
I found the freeze dried strawberries at Trader Joe’s! =)

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Angel, I used Cook’s pure strawberry extract and yes I use Swan’s bleached cake flour, I find it works the best.

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This recipe is FANTASTIC! I just put my cupcakes in the oven, and it smelled divine. I ended up licking the bowl clean! <3

Chrissy

Does anyone know what 1 cup of freeze dried strawberries would equate to with powdered strawberries? I can buy both but don’t have a food processor so hoping to just go straight to the powdered version! Thanks to anyone who knows!

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1/3 cup powder

Rebecca

Thank you for such a great recipe!I ended up doing it with freeze-dried raspberries instead (Trader Joe’s, as another person mentioned), and orange extract. Using freeze-dried fruit was genius – lovely speckled look, intense fruit flavor, and no food coloring. Thank you so much! I will use this again in the future.

Amy

Thank you so much for this recipe. I made cupcakes for my non-vegan husband’s birthday and he loved them.

I also used whole wheat pastry flour instead of the bleached flour. It had more of a healthy muffin consistency/flavor than cupcake, but it paired well with the sweet frosting. Thanks again for this recipe!

Kelly

Made this cake for my vegan daughter’s 11th birthday. I used a little less flour for the second layer, and that worked a bit better (moister and yummier) than the first layer. I also made the cake 2 days in advance, and it kept great in the fridge. Thanks for posting this recipe, which we all really enjoyed! Next up on our to-make list is your vegan gingerbread! Yum!

vicky

I am really excited to find this recipe, the picture looks fab. I’m waiting for my powdered strawberries to arrive then I’ll post an update. I usually make chocolate avocado cake but need a change. This sounds amazing for my daughters 3rd birthday cake!

vicky

Mine didn’t turn out well at all. It didn’t look anything like the picture. The fruit all sank so the bottom was like a strawberry puree and I followed the recipe to the letter :’(

Vicky, also can you tell us what brand and type of strawberries you used, so others will know not to use them.

VegMeg

Making these for my fella for valentines day and could not be more excited! Strawberry cake was always my favorite, but ever since going vegan 1 year ago I haven’t been able to find a suitable replacement. Thank you so much for posting this!

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I can’t find strawberry extract. Can anyone offer a suggestion? Also- I’d love to make this cake in a shaped pan. Will the consistency hold up?

Shana

I am interested in trying this recipe as a sheet cake. Would I need to make any alterations to the recipe as shown?

Shelly Smith

Watkins has strawberry extract. I’m a rep. They have many flavors

Stefanie

I’m going to try making this cake this weekend for my daughter’s 4th birthday, but with fondant. Do you think it’ll work? Maybe less frosting on the exterior?

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absolutely it should work Please tell me how it went!

Stefanie

The cake was delicious and everyone loved it! Fondant is too sweet for my taste, but it looked really good. I actually made 2 layers of strawberry cake and 1 layer of white cake with strawberry icing. Thanks for the wonderful recipes!

angelica

I made this frosting to go on cupcakes and it turned out great. However, I made some substitutions: instead of Earth Balance I used Spectrum non-hydrogenated shortening, instead of nut/soy milk I used about 4 tbsp of coconut milk from a can. I also forgot to add in the lemon juice. I tested the recipe beforehand with lemon and comparison did not detect much difference. A keeper recipe. Thanks